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The main premise of the book is the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States – strong enough to have a real chance of winning national elections, getting to power, and implementing a radical socialist regime. Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal ...
A book report is a summary of what a particular book is about, and typically includes: Theme and character analysis; The tone, time and also the setting of the story; The author of the book and when it was published among other key details of the book; State out quotes used to support the message being emphasized in the story
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
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In the myths surrounding the war, Achilles was said to have died from a wound to his heel, [5] [6] ankle, [7] or torso, [5] which was the result of an arrow—possibly poisoned—shot by Paris. [8] The Iliad may purposefully suppress the myth to emphasise Achilles' human mortality and the stark chasm between gods and heroes.
The magazine's critical summary reads: "Real art will hold us at all our different ages like it held all the people before us and will hold all the people after us, in an elasticity and with a generosity that allow for all our comings and goings," For a whistlestop tour around the life and times of Achilles," writes the Independent, "you'd be ...
Helping define the objective correlative, Eliot's essay "Hamlet and His Problems", [1] republished in his book The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism discusses his view of Shakespeare's incomplete development of Hamlet's emotions in the play Hamlet. Eliot uses Lady Macbeth's state of mind as an example of the successful objective ...
The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973 is a book by Arthur Koestler. It is a collection of writings, lectures, addresses, book reviews, newspaper articles, etc. It is a collection of writings, lectures, addresses, book reviews, newspaper articles, etc.